Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1887-03-08

Cihi eCOnOnly, tut WOllu OVeTS IL 10 De
found the farmer. Producing those
things which directly sustain life, he,
if any, is the aristocrat.
The climate of North Dakota, In
winter, bright, dry and cold, is ex-
ceedingly pleasant, and its only effect
is TO stimulate activity in business
and the ordinary avocations of life.
Though it is cold. the absence of hui
midity, as indicated by the Signal
Service records, causes it to be unno-
ticed and uufelt to the degree noted
in the humid South and East.
The characteristics of tAe climate
of country have the most impor-
tant influence on its productions, and
the cold, dry, solid winters of North
Dakota, give il most important adj
vantages over other sections. Heat,
while the source of all life, If In ex-
cess of the natural demands of the
man or plant, is an active cause of
deterioration and and decay. Man
and our domestic animals thrive best
in cold climates, as is proved by the
death rate of different countries.
Cold weather even If uncomfortable,
invigorates and builds up, as shown
by the fact that in every city in the
United States, the death rate is in
varibly least in the coolest month,
and as surely the greatest in the
warmest month. In st. Louis, Mo,
for instance, during the month of Ju-
ly, the death rate increases at GER
tain ratio for every degrees increase
III temperature above rs degrees. The
infant morality in the hot months is
terribe-it is indeed slaughter of
the innocents." Dakota and Mime
sofa, north of latituted As, are the on
ly regions east of the Rocky Noun
tains where there is no appreciable
increase Of deaths in the summer.
Cold weather favors healthy and nat
ural secretions in all the bodily Or
gans. Warm weather has the oppo-
site effect. This is exemplified, for
instance, by the death rate in torrid
Texas, one in forty-six per annum
in cool Minnesota, one in one hun
dred and twenty per annum.
The showing is still favorable for Da
kota. People will never suffer as
much from cold in Dakota as in any |
one of the central or eastern States +;
il Is loo dry in Dakota for rapid radi-
alton of heat from the body. The
heat OF summer in North Dakota,
averaging GA degrees. bears closer
relation 10 that of the most prosper
Gus and densely populated sections of
the Old World-Great Britain, North
ern France, Belgium and North Ger
any other part of the
United States. In England the sum-
mer temperature will average 6l de-
yrecs; in Scotland, 81 degrees; in
Belgium, so degrees and in North
Germany, 63 degrees. La these Eu-
'opean countries is where the best
iorses, cattle and sheep, wheat, oats,
barley and roots are grown. 1t is
90 cold for Indian corn. In south ,
I'm Europe the average summer .
rises TO 6S and above, and
he corn belt begins, but no one
links of going there to buy the Nor
nan, Percheron or the Clydesdale
orse. No one thinks of buying the
'hort Horn, Hereford, Devon or :
Doddie" in sunny Italy. It's too r
warm, they don't grow there; yet i
tally is cooler in summer than our !
corn belt" The Red River valley,
With its black soil, full of "pros- i
hates" and "alkalies," would not
'roduce the famous No. hard wheat,
ats, flax. rye, barley and other small :
rains, Of such fine quality and in :
UGH quantities, fits summer aver !
ged 81 degrees instead of GA degrees. !
he summer isotherm of 81 degrees,
Inevitably limits the growth of that /
lmous grade, No. hard Fife, to the r
ountry north of lat. 4550-St. Paul
ilobe.